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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charters are provided significantly less funding per pupil than DCPS.  On a school vs. school budget sheet comparison, you'll see slightly more budgeted per student in the typical DCPS as compared to any charter.  But that's not even the story - what's not included in the DCPS figures are most of the facility costs - the building, the utilities, the maintenance and remodeling, the janitorial services, et cetera.  Also not included are the athletic facilities, which are typically provided, funded, maintained and staffed by DC Parks.  Also not included are a big chunk of the administrative costs, along with textbooks and a lot of materials, which are under the Central Office budget.  There are many other things not included in the typical DCPS budget sheet.  What a charter school's budget sheet shows is EVERYTHING - it has to include ALL of those things - they ALL come out of the charter's base budget.  By the time you add it all up, DCPS costs on a per student basis are nearly double that of the typical charter.  Yet to see what goes on, you certainly wouldn't believe most of that money reaches the students.  Now where do you suppose all of THAT money goes?[/quote]

Some for to the central office and shady consultants. I'd love to clear out some of that BS too.
Charter or DCPS, cut out the waste and support the kids better.[/quote]

If you're concerned about fraud, waste and abuse, there's a lot more money vanishing on the DCPS side of the house than anywhere else.  Start there.[/quote]

Nonsense. You can question how effective spending is, but given the procurement and financial systems DC isn't funneling funds to anyone. In addition all DCPS spending is accessible via FOIA. Not so with charters.[/quote]

At Basis, the wife is on the not-for-profit side and the husband is the for-profit corporation they contract with.  And looking at what they did and did not release to the Charter Board for 2013, they did not release teacher or administrators salaries,,,,,,,,,,[/quote]

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